Homunculus

A plume of chimney smoke curls up elegantly into the still evening air.

Being a particle physicist must feel sometimes like I imagine it feels to support certain football teams (hello Spurs fans).

This is my review of Stephen Hawking’s last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018).

You might be inclined to greet the news that AI has been used to design new viruses with the sardonic comment: what could possibly go wrong?

Joe Biden knew just what he was doing when he issued the former chief medical adviser to the White House, Anthony Fauci, with a pre-emptive pardon at the end of his presidency in 2025.

I’m guessing that most readers of The New World (where this article first appeared) will be sceptical of the idea that the image of a man marked by the wounds of crucifixion on the Shroud of Turin is that of Jesus Christ, somehow (supernaturally?)

“We can hardly escape from the conclusion that worms show some degree of intelligence,” Charles Darwin wrote in 1881 after examining their behaviour in his garden in Kent.

One year ago, the cognitive scientist Margaret Boden died at the age of 88.

Nathan Cofnas, the self-proclaimed philosopher and “race realist” whose allegations against Jason Arday led to the explosion of press attention that ended with Arday’s suicide, has been temporarily suspended by Ghent University, where he was employed as a…

How much more black could this be?

It’s a sobering thought that the term “evidence-based medicine” was only coined in 1991 – and that until the 1990s the whole idea was something of a niche pursuit.

Historically speaking, Hungarian science has punched above its weight – but often, tellingly, from outside the country.